| Miahuatlán cotton rat | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Endangered (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Cricetidae |
| Subfamily: | Sigmodontinae |
| Genus: | Sigmodon |
| Species: | S. planifrons |
| Binomial name | |
| Sigmodon planifrons Nelson & Goldman, 1933 | |
The Miahuatlán cotton rat (Sigmodon planifrons) was formerly considered a rodent species in the family Cricetidae. It is found only on the Pacific slope of the Sierra de Miahuatlán in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, where it lives in deciduous tropical forest. The IUCN currently considers it to be conspecific with Sigmodon alleni.
References
- ^ Álvarez-Castañeda, S.T.; Castro-Arellano, I.; Lacher, T.; Vázquez, E.; Arroyo-Cabrales, J. (2008). "Sigmodon planifrons". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008. Retrieved 1 March 2009.{{cite iucn}}: old-form url (help)
- Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D. (2005). "Superfamily Muroidea". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1177. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- de Grammont, P.C.; Cuarón, A.D. (2018). "Sigmodon alleni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T115591937A22355693. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Sigmodon planifrons | |
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